MATLAB: Does the white text become black in the figure when printing to an EMF file in MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)

dmetaemfinverthardcopyMATLABprint

After running the following code

openfig test  % test is a saved figure
print('test.emf','-dmeta')

my white text becomes black in my EMF file

Best Answer

This is an expected behavior. This result is affected by the 'inverthardcopy' property. By default the figure's 'inverthardcopy' property is turned on. Turning this off will address the issue.

set(gcf, 'InvertHardCopy', 'off');

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 This property changes hardcopy to black objects on white background and affects only printed output. Printing a figure or axes having a background color (Color property) that is not white results in poor contrast between graphics objects and the figure background and also consumes a lot of printer toner.

This property is set to "on" by default. If you want to print figures so that the figure or axes objects have the same background color as set in the Color property, please set the InvertHardcopy property to "off". For example:

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Set the figure background Color to 'none' and the Inverthardcopy property to 'off' before calling the print command:

f = figure; 
plot(rand(4)); 
set(f, 'Color', 'none', 'Inverthardcopy', 'off'); 
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